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Tips for Avoiding Yard Work Pain and Injury
Category: Newsletter Library
Does your back, knees or neck hurt every time you work in the yard? These tips could help prevent aches and pains.
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Tips for Good Hip Health
Category: Newsletter Library, Healthy Tips
Having a pair of healthy hips is a key to healthy aging. But healthy hips are not only important for people in their 60s, 70s, and beyond. Your hips are one of your most important structural components, regardless of how old you are. Whether you're 20, 30, or 40, your hip joints provide biomechanical
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Tips for Safe and Healthy Travel
Category: Newsletter Library, Healthy Tips
Here come the holidays - Thanksgiving, Channukah, Christmas, and New Year's. And the travel - Thanksgiving is one of the biggest travel days and the day before Christmas is just as busy. If you're flying, you know what to expect - long lines, delays, crowded flights. But knowing what's to come doesn't
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To Lift or Not to Lift?
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
If a great Shakespearean protagonist had, anachronistically, joined a gym, his internal existential inquiry might have been, "To lift or not to lift?". Many centuries later, the identical inquiry, or controversy, persists. Joining a gym (health club) usually implies the new club member is going to engage
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Today's Fashion Can Be Tomorrow's Pain
Category: Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
Looking your best might not always be the best thing for you. Today's society is extremely fashion and style conscious. Unfortunately, clothing designers and stylists aim to please by creating unique looks that might not always be practical or even comfortable. The look of the season
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Too Much Tech Could be Causing Your Neck Pain
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Wondering why your neck hurts? Your tech habits could be the reason.
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Top Three Fitness Tips from the World of Dance
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
Professional dancers are a pretty select group. These elite athletes are arguably among the fittest people in the world. Dance training provides flexibility, strength, speed, and agility - qualities of which we'd all like to have more. As a result, the dancer's experience provides lifelong guidance for
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Top Two Tips for Reaching Your Normal Weight
Category: Newsletter Library, Weight Loss
It's well-known that one-third of American adults are overweight and an additional one-third are obese.1 In addition, 17% of U.S. children and adolescents are obese.2 Worldwide statistics are similar. These facts are strongly associated with ongoing epidemics in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Diabetes
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Travel Can Be a Pain In Your Back
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Traveling can be rough on the body. Whether you are traveling alone on businessor on your way to a sunny resort with your family, long hours in a caror an airplane can leave you stressed, tired, stiff and sore."Prolonged sitting can wreak havoc on your body," says Dr. Scott Bautch, immediate past president
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Treat Your Joint Pain With Chiropractic Care
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Are you looking for a natural way to control your joint pain?
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Treating Work Injuries With Chiropractic
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Are you eager to get back to work after an on-the-job injury? Chiropractic treatment can help.
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Treating Your Shin Splints with Chiropractic Care
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Does shin splint pain keep you on the sidelines far too often? Chiropractic care can help you get back on your feet.
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Trigger Points and Pain
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Trigger points are persistent, localized muscle spasms that can cause a great deal of pain. Trigger points alone may be responsible for many cases of neck pain, upper back pain, and lower back pain. This relationship is fairly common knowledge among physicians who treat pain, including chiropractors,
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Triple Axel
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
Mao Asada, Silver Medalist in Ladies Figure Skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics, landed three triple axels in the competition, a feat no competitor had done before. There are no easy figure skating jumps, spins, or technical elements, but the triple axel is particularly difficult. This jump has many
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Understanding How the Spine Works
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Do you know how the spine functions?
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Ups and Downs
Category: Newsletter Library, Illness Prevention
Is it possible that ups and downs with respect to our health and well-being are yet another reflection of the ebb and flow of all things? Aren't ups and downs part of the natural process of life? If ups and downs are natural, should you really be concerned with the downs? Isn't disease merely the normal
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Viscoelasticity: The Hidden Ingredient
Category: Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
Most of us have experienced a painful bout of low back pain brought on by a seemingly innocuous movement such as bending over to pick up a pencil or a dropped set of keys. These painful episodes may last a couple of days or be more severe and last more than a week. We're left wondering, "What exactly
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Vitamins for Vitality
Category: Newsletter Library, Nutrition & Healthy Eating
People often wonder about taking vitamins. Should I bother? Are they worth the money? Which ones should I take? In order, the answers are yes, yes, and ask your chiropractor to recommend the brand best for you. Why take vitamins at all? The purpose of supplementation is to cover all bases -- to make
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Walk Into Better Back and Spine Health
Category: Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
Could walking ease your back pain?
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Walking as a Lifestyle Choice
Category: Newsletter Library, Staying Motivated
Everyone knows he or she “should” be doing regular exercise, but most people have not exercised in so many years that they don’t know where to begin. As a result, people start and stop various training programs and routines. They join gyms, buy workout clothes, spend hard-earned income, and ultimately
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Weight Loss Made Easier with Chiropractic
Category: Newsletter Library, Weight Loss
If you need to shed a few extra pounds, you're not alone. Excess weight is possibly the largest health concern in the United States today. According to the Surgeon General, well over half of all adults in the U.S. were overweight in 1999. The good news is that your chiropractor can help you achieve your
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Weight Loss Secrets - Drink Plenty of Water
Category: Newsletter Library, Weight Loss
Overweight and obesity are common health problems worldwide. Food plans that work - those that help people lose weight and help them keep the weight off - embody only a few simple principles. These weight loss secrets include eating five or six small meals each day, combining protein and carbohydrates
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Weight Loss That Stays Lost
Category: Newsletter Library, Weight Loss
America's weight problems are now so well-known they're even fair game for jokes at the Oscars. "Americans really know how to fill up a seat," jibes Ellen DeGeneres, host of the 2007 Academy Awards. The statistics are alarming. Sixty-five percent of Americans - 130 million in 2001 - are overweight.
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Wellness
Category: Common Conditions Treated, Improved Health
Chiropractic is so much more than simply a means of relieving pain. Ultimately, the goal of chiropractic treatment is to restore the body to its natural state of optimal health. Regular chiropractic care, eating a healthy diet, taking vitamin supplements, keeping your weight under control and stress
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Wellness Gardens
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Wellness Gardens When time is spent in an office or indoors day in and day out, some can lose that connection to the outside world. And that loss of connection can lead to higher stress levels and more health ailments without even realizing it. But when that the gap between office life and outdoor life
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What Are Neck Spasms and Why Do They Occur?
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Are you wondering why you have painful neck spasms?
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What Chiropractic Care Can Do for Older Patients
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Would you like to avoid aches and pains as you age? Chiropractic care can help.
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What Is TMJ Syndrome and How Can Chiropractic Help?
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Can chiropractic, which corrects the spine, really affect the pain occurring from TMJ? Read on to learn more.
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What Should I Do About My Pain?
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
No one really wants to be a worrier. We certainly don't want to visit our chiropractor or family doctor for every ache and pain. But eventually we all experience physical problems and it may be difficult to know what to do about them. Some problems are immediate and serious. If you suddenly experience
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What Should I Do for a Herniated Disc?
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Herniated discs in the lumbar spine are fairly common and having one doesn’t sentence you to a lifetime of back problems. In fact, at least one-third of people over age 30 are found to have one or more herniated discs in the lower back when a magnetic resonance imaging study (MRI) is done for reasons
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What is Flexion-Distraction Therapy?
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Looking for a drug-free way to relieve your pain? Flexion-distraction therapy may offer the ideal solution.
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What's Wrong with My Back?
Category: Newsletter Library, Back, Body & Joint Pain
Not all back problems are created equal. One person may have been working on a home improvement project and injured her back while simultaneously bending and twisting. Another person may have developed back pain as a result of a vehicular collision. Another person may be experiencing back pain as a result
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What's the Problem with Stress?
Category: Newsletter Library, Stress & Anxiety
We live in stressful times. The economy is tough, global conflicts rage, severe weather events are affecting people in every corner of the globe, and our numerous technological devices don't seem to be making things any easier. Of course, this is nothing new. Every generation thinks theirs is the best
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When Are Simple Headaches Not So Simple?
Category: Newsletter Library, Chronic Conditions
Headaches are big business. For the drug companies, that is. Approximately 10 million Americans suffer daily headaches, and 50 million have headaches often enough to seek medical care. Approximately 23 million Americans suffer from migraines. Billions of dollars are spent each year on Aleve and Motrin
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Exercisers
Category: Newsletter Library, Injury Rehab & Prevention
"There I am," a very fit patient is saying, "out on my five-mile run, motoring my way up a steep incline. Suddenly, I feel a throbbing pain in the middle of my right shin. Oh, no, I think, not again." As things turned out, the patient recovered from the shin splints1 quickly, but he knew he'd dodged
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